Last month's 10

Chris Campion picked the 10 greatest producers of all time - with an emphasis on the craziest. They were:

1 Phil Spector

2 Lee Perry

3 Jack Nitzsche

4 Jim Steinman

5 Joe Meek

6 Kim Fowley

7 Serge Gainsbourg

8 Sergio Andrade

9 George Clinton

10 Tsunku

One angry Manchester reader has us bang to rights ...

To publish a list of the 10 craziest producers of all time without mentioning the number one is an oversight that's as typical of you cockney shites as it is inane.

Martin Hannett deserves to be up there with Phil Spector, not just because of his legendary madness (yes, he would sometimes sleep under the mixing desk) but also because he repeatedly changed the world of music.

To remind you; his use of the AMS digital delay in 1979 - a machine that was partly conceived in his drug-accelerated brain - revolutionised the way drums sound. For ever. As for his experimentation with early computers, soldering irons and keyboards - 'Isolation', 'Everything's Gone Green', 'Temptation' - it forms the foundation of what we call modern music.

The last words, though, should go to Martin who, as we prepared for the ninth take of A Certain Ratio's 'All Night Party', informed the band: 'Alright, this is the last take, and this time I want it ... faster ... but slower.'